Some examples you should check:
Regular search: http://www.scrollsy.com/#s=nyan%20cat
Treasury listings: http://www.scrollsy.com/#l=treasury
Shop: http://www.scrollsy.com/#un=machelspencePHOTO
Color search: http://www.scrollsy.com/#c=art&color=0A9600
Would love to have some feedback!
In your case, it is just a blank white page. Since you are asking for suggestions, I would suggest you just make it display a message. One for suggesting users with older browsers to download chrome or firefox and another message directed at those with Javascript intentionally disabled which gives a very brief outline of what your app does and why they should enable JS to play with it.
e: I clicked through to the other mashups you have created which you linked in your other comment. They all do the same thing, just bring me to a blank page.
ee: To those down-voting, what do you disagree with? Do you not think pure JS web apps should have HTML fallback pages or do you disagree with the way I said it?
http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Internet-users-use-J...
I don't think non-JS/HTML fallback pages are worth it for a minimal viable product.
I say that as a compliment. Great job.
Only thought is the constant Loading Items widget is annoying and isn't in line with how most sites do dynamic scrolling.
I think the most important thing is that the loading animation be anchored to the bottom of the loaded content so that it never obscures content that's already loaded. If the user manages to outrace your loader and gets to the bottom, some kind of indication that the app is churning away would no doubt be welcome.
Also, the animation on the items isn't very smooth and I find it distracting. It'll probably feel smoother without the drop down animation (maybe a quick $.fadeIn) might look good.
What was your motivation? If you're looking for more exposure you can write a blog post for the Etsy blog. I did that for my app and it drove a lot of traffic (http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/handmade-code-babylist/)
My motivation is coming from previous mashups I did in the same style. http://Scrolldit.com which was featured on TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/25/scrolldit-i-heard-you-liked...) and another mashup I did http://www.ScrollFriends.com (Facebook Scroller, no viral)
However Scrolldit is (most of the time) a pure timewaster, check this: 377.913 (unique visits) x 1.20 (avg minutes on the site) = 453495,6 minutes = an impact of 314,93 wasted days on our world economy.
However with all those minutes wasted I felt the need to do something productive, I think Scrollsy.com is a good try. Supporting all those small shopkeepers, trying to give them more exposure.
Good idea to do the blog post, it's on the list!
I can image using this to gather ideas for gifts, and presumably buying a few (if I was US-based). Nicely done.
Big chance you won't get that error if you retry it after 10 minutes (time needed for Amazon Cloudfront to push the new version to all the edge locations).
The Pinterest-influenced UI is such a great way to explore. I'd much rather browse around on your site than the actual Etsy site anyday. The new items flying in from the left does catch me off guard sometimes and I think the search input and browse dropdown need to be a bit larger but other that, very well done.
A few questions about your Etsy API experience - can you now see who purchased through your site? At the time they had no feedback loop and no sort of affiliate program. Building my Etsy app was a lot of fun, but I had no way to monetize my work. I'm a bit out of the Etsy API loop now, but I do hope they've come up with some way to help devs make money.
Otherwise, looks pretty cool. You should also take a look at other fashion sites for the "Quick Look" interaction (using mouseover or some other light interaction to provide more ui/information/larger image, vs opening a new page), which would be pretty great on a purely visual site like this.
After they were resolved I posted it.
Trick: Click the about link in the top left box and flag the disable animation checkbox.
Do you have any examples of those fashion sites?
Listing options in an about link is counter intuitive.
It's horizontal (like a bookshelf), instead of vertical, though.
Sorry! Couldn't leave that error untouched :)
Seriously I like is a lot, very well thought.
Sorry have to go back on Scrollsy...
I have been working a lot with JSONP lately it's a great way to bring content Cross domain/into Apps. I just recently finished writing a Webservice/iPhone implementation.
Something to consider, try preloading the content to give the user a smoother experience. My UITableViews (iPhone) were a bit clunky until I got around to pre-caching my JSON results.
Anyway, Keep up the good work!
